The Senate: Cheap Victories

While most of Washington worries about
inflation, seven Senators seem to have found a miraculous way to beat
it. Each reported to Congress last week that he had spent absolutely
nothing getting elected in 1968. Such a feat of legerdemain is not
restricted by ideology or party; the Stingy Silent Seven include
Arizona's Barry Goldwater, Georgia's Herman Talmadge, California's Alan
Cranston, Arkansas' J. W. Fulbright and South Dakota's George McGovern.

Their reports expose the futility of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act
of 1925. Designed to limit campaign expenses, the act has never been...